How do you pitch?
Do you throw a curveball, a slider, a fastball, or a slowball? Who's hitting? Is she right or left-handed? How did your last three throws go?
Every day you should be pitching something. But not everything you throw out there is going to be a home run. Are you learning what sells? Are you studying your customers?
My direct customers are my co-workers and I continue to learn how to work with them. It might sound manipulative, but I believe there's actually some art to it. In what I do as a creative type a lot of times the easiest way to pitch an idea is to show an example or maybe even produce the idea to a certain level. Just talking the idea through with my team may be hard for them to visualize.
I also mentioned pitching every day. I believe you're only going to get better at selling in your ideas if you do it regularly. In some form or another. Drip by drip. Send an email about your idea with a link. Bring it up after you've talked about it once. If you really believe it's a good pitch, keep working at it and making it better until you get an answer.
Every day you should be pitching something. But not everything you throw out there is going to be a home run. Are you learning what sells? Are you studying your customers?
My direct customers are my co-workers and I continue to learn how to work with them. It might sound manipulative, but I believe there's actually some art to it. In what I do as a creative type a lot of times the easiest way to pitch an idea is to show an example or maybe even produce the idea to a certain level. Just talking the idea through with my team may be hard for them to visualize.
I also mentioned pitching every day. I believe you're only going to get better at selling in your ideas if you do it regularly. In some form or another. Drip by drip. Send an email about your idea with a link. Bring it up after you've talked about it once. If you really believe it's a good pitch, keep working at it and making it better until you get an answer.